Since I posted last, here's a photo log of important spring developments:
April 17: Tulips and other flowers planted by the city on the side of the road
April 19: The local arboretum
Where this:
Becomes this:
April 22:
April 25: Canola fields that one week drew no attention at all and by the next week were startlingly yellow.
And general gorgeousness, including many cotton-puff trees.
May 2: Most of the cotton-puff trees have lost their blossoms, but now, on the hill in the back, you can see the striking contrast between the electric-green new growth of deciduous trees and the dark green of the evergreens. One of my favorite things about spring here.
May 6: But even the spruce gets in the new-grow-green action:
May 7: In the castle park in Valmez
I love spring!
